Safely back home from another amazing KTP trip. Had the pleasure of witnessing another spectacular Kalahari thunderstorm.

For the trip in November I said it was the yesr of the Lion and the Eland. A month later we got one brief Eland sighting and not many lions.

As it rained on a few days while we were in KTP the game was not visiting the waterholes and we had to do a lot more searching but we found them

It was also the lambing time for the springboks and although we did not get to witness a birth this time, the little ones were all over the place. If I had to give a title to this trip it would be Springboks and Spotted Cats :wink:

We went north on the morning of the 25th. It was quiet but we saw a brown snake eagle

We returned to Urikaruus and packed up. The neighbour tells us that he saw the cubs and Barolong on the ridge very briefly before they disappeared over the dune. He also tells us he saw saw 7 spotted hyena bring down a wildebeest on the road, near Kamqua

We head for Twee Rivieren and see the hyena and meet peterpiper here. Peter also had a good sighting of them eating and dragging the carcas off the road and in the shade

Further on another Haartebeest and calf

and a hornless gemsbok getting a hard time

poor guy

26 November 2012

We headed up the Aoub side early in the morning. We did see two lionesses in the riverbed and general game but the sighting for today was this yellow mongoose in camp

27 November 2012

and so getting back to the future

Sharifa wrote:It is 5.20am and I am waiting in the car at the Twee Rivieren Gate. We have just had 17 wonderful days in the KTP. One would expect to see cheetah in 17 days but they eluded us this time. Duke returns with our permit and I must hand it to him that he can still surprise me after all these years as we head back into the Park and not to Upington.

Well, if it is cheetah you want let us go have one more look. We have a wonderful sighting at Leeudrill...........